Toymaker makes cuddly animals with mental health issues

German toymaker Martin Kittsteiner is hoping children will go potty for his new invention - a family of soft toys who all have psychiatric illnesses.

The toys - suffering from everything from bipolar disorder to acute depression - come with their own medical history, a referral letter and a treatment plan.



Patients include Dub the turtle with severe depression, Sly the snake who suffers from terrifying hallucinations, Dolly the sheep with a personality disorder and a crocodile which has a irrational terror of water.

Martin sells the dolls for £25 each from his website www.parapluesch.de.